Palestinian officials insist on the difficulty of the negotiations:

Senior Palestinian officials warned Tuesday against the difficulty of direct talks with Israel must be committed after the inaugural ceremony in Washington.

The President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas “has announced clearly and goodwill he was ready to succeed these negotiations and that the atmosphere in Washington was different,” said Nabil Shaath, a member of the Palestinian delegation in Washington, where Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formally resumed dialogue between the two camps on September 2.

“But the atmosphere does not mean anything if there is no result,” Shaath warned at a press conference in Ramallah, West Bank. Netanyahu also said that the resumption of talks, suspended for 20 months, was an “attempt” to reach agreement in a message to the Israelis during the Jewish New Year which begins on Wednesday evening.

“I say it is an attempt because success is not certain. There are many obstacles. There are many reasons for skepticism and skepticism,” he acknowledged in these wishes broadcast for the first time on the video sharing site YouTube.

Reaffirming its security and recognition by the Palestinians of Israel as “the nation state of the Jewish people”, he assured that his government urged this step “with good intentions but without naivety”.

After the ceremony of Washington under the leadership of President Barack Obama talks themselves must begin Sept. 14 in Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt) and continue the next day in Jerusalem, attended by Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton and U.S. envoy George Mitchell.

Another senior Palestinian official has considered unlikely a total collapse of the negotiations, despite questions about the extension of Israel’s partial moratorium on settlement in the West Bank, which expires Sept. 26, without which the discussions will lead to a stalemate in the Authority PA.

“These negotiations have been initiated and it is impossible to withdraw,” he said under cover of anonymity.

“It is unimaginable that the U.S. administration calls for direct negotiations earlier this month to accept that they stop at the end, it would damage their credibility,” he said, arguing that Washington would reach a compromise with Israel on the settlement.

Netanyahu and Abbas are to meet every two weeks to a year to reach a framework agreement defining the content of a final settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.